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Antique Maps of Italy & Rome. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of Italy, Rome, Florence, Sicily, Naples and Venice from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Antique Maps of the Americas. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of North America, South America, the Western Hemisphere and Central America.

  1570 (undated)         1 : 20000000 Description A richly-colored example of Ortelius' seminal map of Tartary, this is one of the first maps to focus on the North Pacific. While the map is primarily intended to detail Asia as dominated by the Great Khan, it is also notable for what it shows of America. The map includes what is now the west coast of the United States, northwestern Canada and Alaska, bit was then almost entirely unknown lands. It is the earliest obtainable map to name California. It also displays a strait separating Asia and America - the Strait of Asian - appearing ...

Muscovy-ortelius-1570 $2,500.00 Title Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. Auctore Antonio Ienkensono Anglo, edita Londini Anno. 1562 et dedicata illustriss: D. Henrico Sÿdneo Wallie presidi.   1570 (undated)         1 : 12000000 This is a 1601 example of Abraham Ortelius' 'Russia, Moscoviae et Tartariae', the first atlas map of Russia, and the first to be produced based on actual exploration. Its content is based on the travels of English merchant and diplomat Anthony Jenkinson, who visited Russia four times between 1557 and 1571. The map shows the lands revealed by Jen...